His Results - Green Apple Cakes

A colleague of mine has an apple tree or two in his garden. He brought some of the bounty in to work for me last year and did so again last week.

I enjoy the challenge of trying to keep the apple peel in one piece when I peel them by hand with a knife. I did pretty well with this lot.

It was dead easy to make this cake. In the recipe it said to put it in a buttered pyrex dish. I'd suggest you line it with baking paper though since mine stuck a little.



This was honestly one of my favourite cakes I've made as part of his little project. It was the texture and moistness that really pushed it over the edge into being extraordinary. The flavour was great too but the super moist, sticky, light texture was knock out. I think I probably put in a lot more apple than the recipe writer intended. I also left it in reasonably big chunks, perhaps a centimeter cubed. That will have helped with the ridiculously fine texture. Try this cake gentle reader!

His Results - Victoria Sponge Cake

Delia was as dependable as ever.



Making a victoria sponge is a little more involved than the all in one sponge recipe I mostly use. It's amazing how much difference the technique makes really because the ingredients are more or less identical.



I sandwiched the layers with seedless raspberry jam and served it with some whipped cream. It was very nice! Not the perfect victoria sponge but a nice one.

Recipe 61 - Victoria Sponge Cake

Once more we turn to football club majority owner, best selling cookery writer and fairly-old-lady Delia Smith. This week she will guide us through the making of a true british classic - victoria sponge cake. I've made it a fair bit in the past but never from this recipe. I'm assuming it's a good one.

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/european/english/victoria-sponge-cake.html

His Results - Salted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

I did a pretty poor job getting photos this week.

There's even less excuse than normal since I made this twice. This is a great recipe. Super tasty and a doddle to make. I enjoyed it so much that I rustled up another batch on thursday.

I didn't get a photo of the finised, baked cookies for some reason but they were nice. I've just never found a single cookie recipe where I enjoyed the finished article more than the raw dough. Most of both batches never even made it to the oven.

His Results - Fluffy Date and Ginger Cake

Cakes with dates in always have such an awesome texture. It's kind of suprising there aren't way more recipes using fruit or veg to provide moisture. Courgette, beetroot, carrot. It's all great at making moist, delicious cakes!


It was a doddle to put this together and super tasty too.


Weird picture. I like the super low res looking shadows. This was yummy. Incredibly moist and tender and with a lovely ginger flavour. It goes onto my recommended pile. Not a knock out stellar cake but a good one for sure!

Recipe 59 - Fluffy Ginger and Date Cake

Things I love which are in the title of this recipe:
1) ginger
2) dates
3) cake

surely it'll be a winner!

Recipe is here at the ever reliable technicolor kitchen. As per usual it's helpfully already in metric.

His Results - Cherry Chocolate Brownies

I left it to the last minute to go shopping for ingredients and sadly couldn't find any cherries. Undaunted I soldiered on substituting a mixture of strawberry flavoured gummy sweets and necco wafers.



And that actually worked really well! It wasn't what it was supposed to be but it certainly was good. A crunchy, medicine tasting bite every now and then fromt he necco wafers. Chewy bite every now and then fromt he gummy sweetss. And all in a really rich, fudgy exterior.


I undercooked them a bit and I think it was probably a good thing. They were chewy and rich and delicious. No airiness or crumbliness. Pure chocolately chew. Yum!